• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    You guys ever think you’re being coaxed by the rich to create all these dividing groups. I sure do.

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        Why don’t you think that? Wouldn’t it make sense that convincing groups to decimate and alienate themselves from the main body would benefit them politically? Or is this just a case of the left going off of vibes hopes and dreams

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          Liberals don’t help us. They have been in power before and do absolutely nothing.

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              Liberals arent a singular group

              They are when your definition of a liberal is material rather than aesthetic.

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          I don’t think the rich are creating communist orgs that accurately explain the problems today just to divide liberals from the left, considering liberalism by nature already supports the system the capitalists profit off of. If anything, your suggestion is going off of vibes, hopes, and dreams.

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            I didn’t say they were creating them. I am saying they’re targeting groups with more passion than brains

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              The rich do manipulate liberals into thinking they can get meaningful change through electoralism, but I don’t see what that has to do with leftists.

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                Yep. They want you to replace the rightwing, pro-corporate government with another right-wing, pro-corporate government.

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                Wow incredible. It’s like speaking to a trump supporter. Weird how your opinion parallels theirs.

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                  This is just lazy rhetoric equating me to people we both don’t like. Why is it that you claim my opinion is similar to theirs? They voted for their guy, and he’s in office, no? Seems they think electoralism does work.

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                    Because they were manipulated and coaxed into moving the needle right. It’s your turn now and the fact your opinion is the same as theirs prior to 2016 is just more examples of this. Lemmy is severely astro-turfed. The longer I’m on here the more evident it is. .ml is a place to workshop for these groups. Just like r/the_donald was

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          Liberals call Trump a communist on daily basis. Why should we trust these malicious and stupid people who can’t even differentiate socialism from fascism?

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      you’re being coaxed by the rich to create all these dividing groups

      “Bad People tricked you into thinking that way” is such a shit way of engaging anyone politically.

      It simultaneously serves to call the audience stupid and insert some nebulous outside agency as the scapegoat for failing to make your own case.

      Like, if you want to rally people to all agree you fucking suck, there’s really no better way than to go to every individual group and say “I’m right, its obvious, and you’re just too dumb to notice.”

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        Didn’t answer what I asked. Being stupid is ignoring a question like this because of ego

        And I don’t want to rally people. I’m honestly giving up on the left. I’ve watched them slash tires to protest … Cars. I’ve seen them defend blocking traffic even when we see how counter productive it is when it always produces footage of regular folks and emergency vehicles getting delayed. I’ve watched them Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I have seen zero effective strategies. But now I’m tired and things I wouldn’t call it I’ll say it now because I’m so fucking done watching people not realize this stuff. It’s walkaway 2.0

        I’ve watched the left turn into something that is extremely toxic. There’s no social awareness. If you think what I’m saying is toxic or lacking in social awareness congratulations, that’s the strategy the left uses every single day now. There’s no effort, no consistency day to day other than areas that divide. It’s an ideology about burning bridges and purity tests

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      Are you funded by the billionaire elite to defend liberalism? Obviously we divide capitalist ideology from socialist/communist groups